Gentil Madonna. Sweet was the song the Virgin sung. Elizabethan dance suite. Coventry carol. Greensleeves. Old year now away is fled.
Notes:
Julianne Baird, soprano ; Parthenia (A Consort of Viols): Beverly Au (bass viol), Lawrence Lipnik (tenor viol), Rosamund Morley (treble viol), Lisa Terry (bass viol). Recorded June 2009, The Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. Compact disc. Program and biographical notes on the composers by Lucy E. Cross and Rosamund Morley, biographical information on the performers in English and texts with English translations (for works sung in Latin) (11 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Contents:
Prelude and voluntary / William Byrd (3:09) -- Remember, o thou man / Thomas Ravenscroft (3:03) -- From virgin's womb this day did Spring / William Byrd (4:30) -- Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs. As it fell on a holie eve (1:17) ; The cradle (2:46) ; The night watch (1:13) / Anthony Holborne -- Gradualia seu cantionum sacrarum. O magnum mysterium (4:270 ; Vidimus stellam (1:57) ; Puer natus est (3:10) / William Byrd -- Gentil madonna (1:13) ; Sweet was the song the virgin sung (3:25) / Anonymous -- A gigge: Dr. Bull's my selfe / John Bull (1:05) -- Fantasia la sampogna / Thomas Morley (1:50) -- Out of the Orient crystal skies / William Byrd (4:32) -- Elizabethan dance suite. Pavan of Albarti (1:05) ; Gallyard (0:44) ; Allemana d'amor (1:17) / Anonymous -- Fantasy at 4 / William Byrd (2:26) -- Lully, lulla / Shearmen & Tailors carol (3:36) -- Harke, harke (2:08) ; A mery conceit : the queens delight (2:08) / Tobias Hume -- Divisions on Greensleeves / Anonymous ; The old year now away is fled / Traditional Waits carol (5:25)
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